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Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable by danieldk on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:52AM (#18919247)
It is not just a reskinned KPN service. Xs4all offers a lot of technical advantages (e.g. being able to configure the ISP-side firewall to allow port 25 access).

The problem is that the market of tech enthusiasts is very small. At the KPN-scale, it is financially probably more attractive to streamline operations and to lose a few tech enthusiast subscribers than to keep several separate operations.

That said, Xs4all gave KPN the moral higher ground, plus testing grounds for new technology.

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Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable by yqt on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:07AM (#18919579)
>Xs4all offers a lot of technical advantages (e.g. being able to configure the ISP-side firewall to allow port 25 access).

Where I live there's no ISP-side firewall on any ISP, so that would not be an advantage at all.

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Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable by gpvos on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:08AM (#18919311)
tinus_hn meant that that might be what Xs4all would become. Currently they're not, of course.
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